Chateauroux Fellowship Claims to Connect Billionaires with Christian Ministries
By Warren Cole Smith - Posted at MinistryWatch:
Secretive group recently hosted event at Mar-a-Lago, has committed billions to Christian organizationsAccording to the group’s own website, the Fellowship has committed at least $5 billion in future bequests to dozens of Christian groups. But so far MinistryWatch has not been able to determine that any of the groups have received funds, though many of the hopeful recipients have spent thousands of dollars in travel and lodging to attend meetings and dinners with Lee.
The Chateauroux Fellowship is, according to the organization’s website, “an exclusive, private, and by-invitation-only fellowship of individuals who have networked together for over thirty years for the sole purpose of leveraging their circles of influence to draw attention to, and realize major legacy gifts for, highly select nonprofit organizations in the United States and overseas.”
Further, the website proclaims, “On May 22, 2024, we surpassed $300 million in total support for the organizations we love and support. In the remainder of 2024, and through the end of 2025, we have secured and will be committing an additional $300 million+ in planned gifts to the nonprofits we support.”
However, according to its own website, it has already far exceeded its goal. More than $5 billion in future bequests have already been announced on the Chateauroux website.
“Bequests and “planned gifts” seem to be the key words here. None of the ministries contacted by MinistryWatch have so far received any funds. They have, rather, received notification that their organizations will get a bequest from an anonymous billionaire (or billionaires) at an unspecified future date, presumably upon the benefactor’s death. However, other than assurances from Christian Thomas Lee, the ministries do not appear to have received any legally binding documents confirming these bequests will occur.
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